Inaugural Seymour Lecture to feature Sarah Cravens

Sarah Cravens will be the speaker at the Inaugural Honorable Stephanie K. Seymour Lecture to be entitled “Judging Discretion” held Thursday at the University of Tulsa College of Law.

The lecture will be presented at 7 p.m. in the Price Turpen Courtroom at John Rogers Hall, located at 3120 E. Fourth Place.

Cravens is a member of the faculty at the University of Akron School of Law. She received her J.D., magna cum laude, in 2002 from Washington & Lee University School of Law, where she served as Senior Articles Editor of the Washington & Lee Law Review.

After graduation from law school, Cravens worked as a law clerk for Judge Seymour on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and later as an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington D.C., where she practiced in the area of products liability litigation.

In keeping with the theme of her lecture, Cravens writes on the role of the judge, focusing in recent articles and book chapters on the concept of impartiality, the use of appearances in recusal analysis and the importance of explicit reason-giving in judicial opinions.

The lecture series was established by more than fifty of Seymour’s previous law clerks to celebrate her career and honor her legacy, which includes a commitment to providing opportunity for the best and brightest law graduates. The lecture series will feature untenured law professors, like Cravens, whose dedication and passion emulate that of Judge Seymour.